Bourdais tops Houston warm-up
Sebastien Bourdais headed the Sunday morning warm-up at Houston by less than two tenths of a second from French compatriot Simon Pagenaud of Team Australia
The Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing driver set a time of 58.823 seconds with an average lap speed of 103.001 mph.
Bruno Junqueira made a late run to vault Dale Coyne Racing into the top three, while Graham Rahal was half a second off teammate Bourdais.
Oriol Servia (Forsythe Championship Racing) and Neel Jani (PKV Racing) backed up their qualifying pace from yesterday with a strong showing on the harder compound black tyres, but only just beat Ryan Dalziel, who put the Pacific Coast Motorsports machine seventh fastest.
Temporary PCM teammate Roberto Moreno ended the session 0.3 seconds off next slowest.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. S.Bourdais Newman/Haas/Lanigan 58.823 2. Simon Pagenaud Team Australia 58.999 + 0.176 3. Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne 59.066 + 0.243 4. Graham Rahal Newman/Haas/Lanigan 59.505 + 0.682 5. Oriol Servia Forsythe Championship 59.713 + 0.890 6. Neel Jani PKV 59.792 + 0.969 7. Ryan Dalziel Pacific Coast Motorsports 1:00.016 + 1.193 8. Robert Doornbos Minardi Team USA 1:00.048 + 1.225 9. Tristan Gommendy PKV 1:00.089 + 1.266 10. Alex Tagliani RSPORTS 1:00.158 + 1.335 11. Mario Dominguez Forsythe Championship 1:00.233 + 1.410 12. Will Power Team Australia 1:00.404 + 1.581 13. Justin Wilson RSPORTS 1:00.566 + 1.743 14. Matthew Halliday Conquest 1:00.743 + 1.920 15. Katherine Legge Dale Coyne 1:00.877 + 2.054 16. Dan Clarke Minardi Team USA 1:00.949 + 2.126 17. Roberto Moreno Pacific Coast Motorsports 1:01.238 + 2.415
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